Crawfordsville Record, Volume 4, Number 11, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 8 August 1835 — Page 2
C R AW F O R D S V I L L E RECORD.
town of Clinton, burning, sacking, and laying desolate the whole country as they advanced, Hy the tune the destruction of Clinton could have been accomplished, it was exncctcd the insurgent army would bo greatly strengihed, and amoimUperhaps, to several thousands. A precipitous march was then to be made to the county of Claiborne, along the skirts of Varrcn,and the w hole country upon the river bank was to have been ravaged, and inundated with men, women, and children, Such are the outlines of this plan of conspiracy, related by those who have w itnessed much ot the investigation which has taken place upon the subject in Madison county.
We are sorry that we arc unable, at present, to furnish an account of all the facts disclosed in the progress of that investigation ; but we
have been promised a statement of j Louisiana
white and black, as we could get hold of. Yesterday, at one o'clock, we had,got thro' but last night two others were brought in, and to-day we expect another, who has been engaged in stealing negroes, and belongs to the Minrel cans, ro doubt. Our committee
lias laid aside the law, and taken the matter into their own hands. They are composed of thirteen, taken from the community, of the most discreet and respectable men among us. The emergency required this course.
Five white men, ten or twelve negroes,
havfi horn handed, under the strongest kind
of evidence; and when this committee will
be able to fret clear of business, is very un
certain, for every day brings more and more evidence. We apprehend no danger from
the blacks now, but arc tracing out the con snirators.
I nive you this small sketch, that the pco-
pie mav not be misrepresented abroad, until
the proceedings of the whole matter will be published, and we hope they will wait (ill then, ami not form opinions from dying news
and malicious motrves. I will write you again
soon. Like committees are forming all ov
er the state, and it seems, from what is dis
closed, that your state is not exempt for it
is traced Irom Kentucky to Alexandria, in
all tho evidence furnished to the committee in Madison, as soon as it can be conveniently prepared
when we shall deem it our duly, as a sentinel of the public safety, to make them as widely know n as possible, that a due degree of vigilance and activity maybe excited among the w hite population, to ensure our present safety, and the utter eradication of this accursed conspiracy. We arc assured by a gentleman who was in Livingston on Monday last, that the utmost order seems to pervade the community there. An intense excitement certainly exists among the whole white population ; but the excitement is of that awful and profound character which discloses not itself in noise and uproar. The committee of investigation occupy a room withdrawn from the multitude, and the utmost calmness and dignity have marked their whole proceedings. The investigations which take place as the various cases are brought before them for consideration, are conducted in a manner that would not do discre
dit to the most dignified judicial tribunal of the country. Every opportunity is furnished to the persons inculpated of cross-examining w itnesses, introducing testimony in their defence, and explaining all doubts by their own voluntary statements,which the most humane could desire; and, what is truly creditable, not a word of unkindness is permitted to be addressed to the culprit on trial, and no question propounded to any of the witnesses calculated to oroduco a statement of
1 . the case not entirely in accordance vvith truth and justice. We are told that five white men,
altogether, have been hung in Livingston. Ruel Blake, one of the prime movers of the conspiracy, &, who, it was said, was the individual
designated to lead on the army of
incendiaries against this county, had fled in dismay, but was apprehended in Vickshurg, carried back to Livingston and tried, and was exe
cuted on yesterday between three
and four o'clock. The number o
negroes executed, we have no
heard precisely enumerated, bu
suppose it to amount to some ten or
fifteen.
We are informed that Hunter, one of the chiefs of the conspiracy, has
been apprehended near Benton
Yazoo county, and that he had made some material disclosures in
-addition to those already made.
A committee, similar to the one
in Madison, have been in session several days in Clinton. Various
suspected white men have beenar
rested, brought before them, and
discharged. Several negroes have also been hauled up; but nothing
being elicited which authorized pun ishment, they were set at liberty. We sincerely trust that our coun
trymen will be on the alert thrctout
Viestatc, for indeed we do feel that
there is danger abroad. Timely
precautions will insure our safety, i ..... i , . . j '
tina uueny ueteat this abominable
You can have what parts of this published
you may think proper. PROCLAMATION,
By II. G. Runnels, governor of the stale of
Mississippi. Whereas, it has been represented to the executive that there is a band of lawless, base, villanous white men, traversing the country, endeavoring to get up an insurrection among our slaves : And whereas, it has been further represented to tho executive, that disclosures have been made by those concerned, well calculated to excite the most serious apprehensions that a widely extended conspiracy is on foot,calculated to produce an alarm, and to call forth the vigilance and energy of our people I do, therefore, issue this proclamation, exhorting all good citizens, and commanding the officers, both civil and military, to use the utmost vigilance to suppress all such insur
rectionary movements, and to aphend all such suspicious persons
and deliver them over to the prop-
r authoriiies,thatthey may be bro't
to condign punishment. To which end I especially call on the members of the board of police of each county and district, to exert tho authority given to them, by an act of the legislature of the 25th December, 1833, of organizing, in their
respective beats, active and efficient patroles. I repeat tho importance and necessity of much vigilance in all quarters of the state ; and, should it become necessary, 1 do hereby
order the quarter master general and each ot the assistant quarter
masters general, to deliver the arms
of the state into the hands of the people, for their defence; taking the
are identified with ours,and he spent the flower of his youth and the vigor of his manhood in our service. We shall support him because his whole life, public and private, is an exemplification of that republican simplicity and Tirtue which should always characterize the American people. And lastly, we shall support him because we believe he will
receive a more unanimous support than any other candidate against Mr. Van Buren. Pennsylvania has
nominated him. lie has been pro
claimed as the candidate of the
key stone state, on the very ground where gen, Jackson received his first nomination. Numerous and frequent meetings of his friends have been held in New York. If any one can carry that slate against Van Buren, he is the man. Ohio will give her vote by acclamation, to one of the noblest of her sons, Kentucky will, in a time of political confusion, entrust the charge of the gov ernment to the man to w hose care she confided the flower of her chivalrous
youth, in a day of darkness and of
danger whose orders her venerable Shelby obeyed, &, under whose banners her Johnson plucked his laurels. Indiana, while she remembers Tippecanoe, can not forget her old governor. She will not forget him who protected her frontiers in the season of her infancy, from the
tomahawk and scalping kni fe of
the merciless savage. She will support the man who was the chief in
strument ot converting a howling
wilderness into what Indiana now is
who extinguished the Indian ti
tle to the land within her limits, and who, by procuring an alteration of
the land system, took the public
land from the grasp of avaricious monopoly, and placed it within the poor man's reach. He will be supported, not by the underlings of of
fice and the seekers for place, but by the honest, industrious yeoman
ry of the country, and they will carry him triumphantly through. Let him be fixed on as the western candidate; let the people express themselves in his favor, through their primary assemblies; let us strain every nerve open every vein, in his support, and if we succeed, a more
meritorious triumph was never achieved, if we fail, we will have the proud reflection of adding one
more leaf to the chaplet that is at)
son, capt. M'Kinstry, Irom Ilochelle, bringing Paris advices to the 12th, and Rochelle to the Mih ultimo. It will be seen by the subjoined extracts, that the indemnity bill was again under discussion in the chamber of peers, on the 11th of June and the subject was to bo resumed on the following day. Capt. M'Kinstry brings a verbal report, which reached him on the 15th, while lying olf the harbor, that the bill was
passed on the 12th of June, pre
Crawfordsville! SATURDAY, AUGUST 8, 1835. An election will be held at the courthousd in Crawfordsville, on the Stli day of August, 1835, for the purpose of electing a justice of the ieacc, to fill the vacancy of P. M. Currey then resigned. We have been requested to announce JOHN GILLILAND, as a candidate for justice of the peace, in the room of P. 31. Currey, resigned . XX YOUEL B. PULLEN for tho
! same office.
MEXICO. New Orleans, June 21. The schooner Crawford arrived yesterday in nine days from Vera Cruz, and brought papers of that place of the liith inst. They contain the intelligence of a complete change in the form of government in Mexico
channtna the federal republic of the states
to a central, consolidated government, over
which Santa Ana is recognized as the head or
supreme chief of the nation
The chano-c commenced in Toluca, the chief city of the state of xMexico, whence the plan was sent to the general government,
and disseminated through each and every
state. It has been adopted in every part ol
the state of Mexico, and in most of the other
states; even those that had prominently adopted the plan of Texca, particularly Zacatecas. This plan of Toluca apjxjars to have emanated from Santa Ann, and its adoption in he various states of the Mexican republic to have been premeditated; so that 'here appears little doubt of its being generally supported and ultimately sucressful. The prominent features of the plan arc, to
establish a popular, representative, and c n-
E LECTION RETURNS. Statement of rotes given in the several totcnships, of Montgomery county, Indiana, at the general election, for 1S35. X3 aJ ! e JT a. -2 w
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10 IIIV,KIMj v j in ij i' -- - puties, or as reported to the peers from the deputies, docs not appear. The difference is essential, as it involves the amendment of general Valeze, requiring an explanation from the American government. Com. Ad p.
In reference to this report, the New York Daily Advertiser says 'The letters received by the Isaac Clason from various correspondents do not contain a w ord on the sub
ject. The captain, however, states
that his broker, on handing him the ship's papers, stated that the indemnity bill passed the chamber of peers on'the 12th, but can not say whether in the shape that it came from the chamber of deputies or not. Mutual congratulations were exchanged between the French and Americans, at Rochelle, on the ter
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of tho nation in the integrity of its actual ter-
Otirread- ritory; on the proportionate division ol the
Richard's himself.-
C-The official returns have not yet been received from Clinton county; but enough has-
been ascertained to warrant us in saying that.
Messrs. Ristine and Lee are our representa
tives, irom what we hear Irom other coun
ties, Mr. Ilannegan is "going ahead,1
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me same, aim a me same me, Ouren's friends had stated, thai Mr.
iiaiiuuri-saiu 'umuu.ujit, uib- Van Buren had said that
tribution accordms to the cxicen
cies of the case.
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nrc will rprnllnrtllmt Mr Ron ffv .in powers 01 me government ; anu on me con,w-
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a letter, that has been published, Santa Ana i recognized as president and
ion; and as protector
.r ut-.tt ce, lUKiug me gta(es mat gcneral Tipton had in- supreme chief of the nat
ponbll)ie persons lor fnpmPfi Uln, .i,nt cnmp flf lTr V.nn of its laws freely enacted
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project; but inaction and anaihv
may be productive of consequences M'hich we do not dare to name. Extract from a letter, dated Livingston, Miss., July 13, 1S35. Dear sir Since I wrote you last, our committee of vigilance has been constantly in session, trying find executing such persons,
The present authorities not opposing the
plan of Toluca, are to continue in office till congress shall organize a envernment on the
"If elected fo the nresidencv. he would principles indicated, and tins is to be eliected
1 ii, ;c as soon as possible.
n testimony whereot, 1 have he had been president, he would not have ve-
hereunto set my hand, and toed the Wabash appropriation bill." The following account of the proceedings r.
caused ihe o-rn;it spnl of thp .i.t " . : t 1 1,, of Santa Anna, is a torctastc ot those that are
lof , , f 7 m i wfiuajuuguinihrau: to come. A correspondent of the iuw York state to bo hereunto affixed, The Globe of vesterdav mnrnin.fr nr,w ,n,i Knni r -.i.rs fmm V rm.
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The Rev. Mr. Rees will preach in the school house in this place, next Wednesdays at carlv candle light.
(fCf-'So Intelligencer yet.CQ A campmeeling is now being held at Walnut Grove it commenced yesterday.
H. G. RUNNELS. By the Governor,
David Dicksox, Sec of Stale.
"As far as this relates to Mr. Van Buren,
we have his authority for saying, that no such
application as that suggested in Mr. Beatty's letter was ever made to him, and that he has
never made either of the declarations altribu
GEN. HARRISON
We extract the following from the Repub- ted ,e him or any of ,ike imPort "
licm and Banner, published at Madison, one of the most respectable papers in the state.
The Indiana Journal, Vincennes Gazette, and
Rushville Herald, have also come out for
general Harrison
Washington Sifn.
under dated of June
The excesses committed by the victor San
ta Anna and his troops, in Zacatecas and vi
cinity, are without parallel in the history of
civilized nations. It appears that all stran
gers wereexposed to their diabolical rage; the
only American in the place was basely assas
sinated in presence of his wife, who was afterwards stabbed to the heart, stripped of her
clothing and thrown exposed into the street
I he English residents at the mines were rob
bed, their property wantonly destroyed, and
some murdered and all menaced with cxter
mination. The English minister has made a
The Grcencastle piper of the 5lh instant, brings the official returns from Putnam county; from which it appears that, for congress,
Mr. Davis received 1233, and Mr. Ewing
783 votes giving Mr. Davis amainritvnf
w '-' j j 150. For representatives, Messrs. Ilarrah and Chiles are the highest.
"To w hom , then, should the west
give her support? We
HEALTH OF THE CITY. The health of Cincinnati never
was better than at this lime. We
neither have cholera nor its pre- peremptory demand for indemnity to his mamonitory Symptoms. Our friends jesty's subjects, for the injuries done to their
answer, to at a distnnrn. hnvincr WI tn property, which they will doubtless obtain.
William Henry Harrison lransact here are SUred that there a seinX demanf L7!he 'injuries done'our 1USON We believe that he blends is nothing in the health of the city citizens, and if made by our late charge des greater Claims tO the Confidence Of ilint clnM ,U:M : affaires, it would dnnbiloss hn unavailing n
in all previous ones. The impropriety with which the authorities of this country have outraged both ihe persons and property of our citizens, renders them peculiarly obnoxious to future abuse from the authorities during their civil commotions, of which the
country has been abundantly prolific for the
last ten years
that Khntllfl nrPVPnt thir rrtnrrr .
the people, with a greater probabil- The city is unusually active and
ny 01 success, inan any 01 tne can- prosperous at this time. Pr
l.r .1 If r 1 I I 1 . .u.utnni.,
uiuuius uuiore me people, we nave tinnsnrfl nlrMAv mnH .1 "
.r proachmg lalFs business.
nan muni lU Ulb milM. VC Snail nnH mmmnrlmn, nJ ...
support him because he has always hmicpc nP ho;nnL,j .un
ouoM ... r..uo,,M u, "- better accommodation of those en
smuuonai nueriy, wnicn are tne
surest guaratees of individual se
curity and national greatness, and
which should ever be held dear bv
every American. Wo shall sup-
ion him because he has shown him
self as able in council as he has been
earless in the field. We shall sup
port him because he is emphatical-
y a western man, for his interests
gaged in purchasing and sending a-
broad the products ol the soil. The
I 'sunshine of prpsperity" is beaming upon us again. Cincinnati Gazette.
Very late from Europe. The Liverpool packet ship of the 8th ult. has arrived at New York, and also a chance ship the Isaac Cla-
After the late election, there was to hav
been a great entertainment in New Jersey, in
honor of the "democracy" of the people of
me siaies ot lew iork, New Jersey, and
j.enii&yivania, ccc. and large preparations
vveie maae to receive the expected quests.
They did not come. After screwing all that they could out of
named Norbury Baskford, brought an action against several individuals, and obtained a verdict from which they appealed. Only 113 tickets were sold. iY7cs' Register.
The late severe measures against gamblers '. T .' - .' . '. n a I r i .
in ;uiwi5Miii, sftui io i:ave irigntened a great number of them away; according to the newspaper accounts, they have been driven up from place to place, till almost the whole body of them have taken refuge at Cincinnati; even there, (gamblers and blackguards of the south speak of Cincinnati as a most contemptible picaune place,) the indications are that they will hardly be allowed their usual summer's comfort. It is a rule of good generalship, to fire heavy, effectual shots
at the onset, but to forbear and spare upon a retreat: the gamesters huve had the first part
of the rule exercised upon them in it Ohest measure and the probability is, they will now
)e heard m defence, and advised to a better
way of life. PUOCLAMATION-BY THE MAYOR
OF THE CITY OF CINCINNATI. Whereas great excitement prevails a-
mong the citizens, produced by the presence?of a number of persons Called gambleu? whose offensive pursuits, it is said, have, caused their expulsion from other places: And whereas it is known to me, that strong and instant measuics are contemplated and
recommended to the citizens, for the Durnosc
of compelling these persons immediately to
leave the city;
Now, therefore, be it known, that to attain
tho end proposed, the city council have, by a
resolution, authoiized me to call to the aid of the police, one hundred effective men, in addition to which I am authorized to say, that five hundred citizens stand ready at any mo-.
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